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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 138

Germans Capture Western Ukraine, Half As Big As Texas

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1941

TERMS

——— Clapper in London

‘War's Almost Over’ Rumors Peril Britain

Over-Confidence Due to

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

19—(Bv Wireless) —Thus far I can speak only I find it not as grim as I had expected, but on the contrary confident if not even buoyant. In fact, there exists what the newspapers call a “lull psychology, which one paper describes as Britain's No. 1 Fifth Columnist. The Government is being urged to shake the country out of this, and to force civilians to carry gas masks as a reminder that anger is ever present. This confident feeling arises from the facts that London has not had an air-raid alarm in many fewer than 300 Nazi raiders crossed the British coast in the last four weeks, and that a new pattern of victory is discerned in Russia's unexpected resistance to the German Army, a new experience in this war. These things more than offset the disappointing discovery that Roosevelt and Churchill in their meeting at sea were not taking America into the

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weeks, that

War.

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to fall such hope of an early peace.

vear is that the Russians will come under the protection of winter weather with their army relatively intact. Nevertheless, the rumors will not down. Even the stock exchange is affected bv what are described as the hallucinations of rumormongers Children who have been evacuated twice or three times are coming back to the dangerous areas. Hundreds holidav

of special

trains are run, although the Gov- | ernment has appealed to the pub- | lic to refrain from travel in or-

der to ease the coal shortage, which is serious and which is the subject of considerable criticism in Commons.

The American film “Gone With |

the Wind” is breaking all records here. Dining rooms and dance floors in the big hotels are crowded. Serious concert audiences listen to Wagner, while merrier persons mockingly sing Die Wacht Am Rhein. Laughter and music come out

through curtained windows as one

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walks home through black-out streets. The streets are busy during shopping hours. = =

Still Silent Agony

HOWEVER, I WOULD not suggest that there is no evidence of war in London Those ugly

ruins of the streets in every part of London—theyr tell vou in unmistakable language that the war has beer. here in London. On a bright Sunday moming I went to Kensington Gardens to visit the statue of as {or personal and sentimental reasons I always do when in London. This time there was not a child in One adult was standing there when I came up. The absence of young laughter cut one with a chill thrust. Cobwebs hung in festoons from the pipes of the lonely little figure, though the tiny ears of the small mice around the pedestal were still strangely bright from the fond caresses of many children’s hands. You know that under the brave face of London there is the silent agony of the war that reaches everywhere. You can never forget the women standing on the railroad platforms waving and smiling as the trains leave »

Everybody Cordial

BUT ANXIETY is not written on the faces of people as I thought it might be. They have recovered from the tense nights of last winters blitz.

3nd sight.

At the aiien registration bureau

the police have pleasant small remarks for foreigners. One asked me if it didnt seem strange to be called an alien. Everybody seems cordial, not only to strangers but to each ther. I have yet to hear even a taxi driver barking over the right of way. A friend of mine creates a sensation by displaying three oranges >n the mantelpiece of his apartment, and makes a gift of one of them to his special waiter, who sometimes slips him an extra pat » butter. I will never be able to tell you rery much about this war. Nobody will. This wartime life has many acets, some bright, some dark, ome that are better not thought bout. You get one glimpse here, mother quite different glimpse iomewhere else. All the while the visitor knows te has seen nothing at all that nables him to comprehend the ull enormity of this curse that as fallen alike upon the just and he unjust.

Held Nation's No. | Fifth Columnist.

THE NEWSPAPERS report a strange whisper- | ing campaign throughout England pointing to an early victory, even naming Sept. Every responsible person here knows there is no ground for any Long months of war still lie ahead. The most that is hoped for this |

wrecked | buildings and homes that notena |

Peter Pan, |

130,000 50. ML SEIZED IN ALL REDS FIGHT ON

Panzer Units 65 Miles From | Leningrad but Moscow | Front Holds.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor German armed forces hammered | their way into the defenses of Rusisia’s vast war industries in the Ukraine and Leningrad sectors today but still were far short of their chief objective—destruction of the] Red Army as a fighting force. The Nazi southern army of Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt claimed {the conquest of an area about half {as large as Texas in the Ukraine up to the Dnieper River, which is the] last great natural obstacle protect- | ing the Donetz Basin war indus-| tries. Seizure of eight Soviet warships,

Lull in Nazi Bombing Raids

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Kennedy Flying Back as Probe of

Fire Lieut. Arnold W. Phillips

all under construction or repair and probably damaged by retiring Rus-| 'sians, was reported by Berlin, but! | Moscow said that the Black Sea] [fleet was hurling back Axis at-| tempts to land on the Ukraine coast farther east.

Creep Up on Leningrad

The Soviets reported, too, that they were fighting strongly in the! streets of Ukraine cities in the area claimed by the Nazis and at the; Dnieper River bridgeheads which Berlin reported under terrific aerial attack by the Luftwaffe. { The Russians said that their | armies were fighting back strongiy | on the central (Smolensk) front defending Moscow and that German gains on the north toward Lenin-

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COUNTY'S CROPS NEED MORE RAIN

None in Sight, Says Weather Bureau After Welcome Fall Yesterday.

J ‘RES 6 ural Tyee YrURE ‘step struggle through every village 6am... : & s TB vue ‘and city. !% Hh 1 ah Wh wunh | The capture of 77.750 prisoners; Ja 5 Tr including 17.750 in the Kiev and | N%. I voir Rorosten areas, the seizure of one | ___135000-ton battleship and seven] Yesterday's drought - breaking other warships, and the capture of | rain was of inestimable value to large quantities of war materials] Marion County farmers, but much Was reported by the Nazi High Com-

: Sis ; .. mand in claiming that the Reichs- | ‘more is needed, Horace AbDOW, rp now had seized well over| county agricultural agent. reported 130.000 square miles of the Ukraine.

| today. i A total of 64 of an inch of rain 300.000 Men Retreat

fell in a 24-hour period ending at! The High Command described contend that because of the lower to order the records made public Mr. Wallace to the status of to (salaries paid. they are losing many until he had conferred with Mr. sistant President,” in charge of an |

7 p. m. last night. Only a trace of these gains as in addition

rain fell during the night.

| Mr. Abbott said while the rain the Germans were fighting near Pl

| will, of course, be of some help to Uman 10daysago. At that time, the |

wipe out much of the damage 25 Russian divisions caused io the crop by the extended about 450000 men), taken 103.000 drought. prisoners, 317 tanks, 858 guns and Expected to benefit from tie rain 5250 trucks. are alfalfa and soy beans crops and | London experts reported that the pastureland. Marshal Budenny was believed . ; {to have moved 300.000 to 400000 First Since June 11 men across the Dnieper in four While the rain may prolong the days, representing probably half of | tomato picking season, it may cause nis south Ukraine army. The Rus- | some damage to the tomato crop Sians were estimated to have lost| since tomatoes often crack open about 150.000 men in this operation. | during a dry spell immediately tl-| The British pointed out that the | lowing a rain, the county ageat Dnieper retreat was of utmost im- | said. portarce because ‘he river is the The Weather Bureau saw no im- last big natural obstacle on the mediate prospects for any more path to the heart of Russian war rain. It predicted fair and cooler production. temperatures tonight .with fair and! The German advance in south moderate temperatures tomorrow. Russia since the start of the war! Mr. Abbott said that several has been as much as 500 to 600 times as much rain as fell vester- miles in some directions, but the day is needed to put the proper Donetz Basin is still more than 100 | ‘amount of moisture in the soil and miles away—across. SHH. 0 sat Wak he rd 70 Miles From Leningrad i erday’s rain was irst | : : | ; Ns ; { Dispatches from both sides also A Mima" %1 iy dicated, that. the Russians were| R % | holding their ground against re-| more than one inch fell. The Tain pewed German attacks on the cen-| caused the temperature to fall last tra] front and might have launched night to a low of 62 degrees at 4:30 5n jmportant counter-attack in the a. m. today. Highest temperature gmolensk area defending Moscow. | recorded yesterday was 81 degrees| But the Germans obviously were at 4:30 p. m. | making important, if slow, gains on

| SS ————————————ant— the northern front. 19 ARE INJURED IN On the gerial front, German and;

| Russian bombers apparently ati

tempted to raid the enemy capitals without particular success and the City Kept in State of Alarm For Two Hours.

Royal Air Force bombed Cologne, Duisburg and Dunkirk. Daylight attacks on the continent also were resumed by the British.

HAVANA, Aug. 19 ((U. PD) —At| least 12 persons were injured in! bombings in various parts of the] | city last night which kept the | {people of Havana in a state of] Times Staft Writer (alarm for two hours, it was report-| SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 19— ‘ed In unofficial sources today. __| The time is fast approaching when Four of those injured were said|ye “cannot afford the luxury of be(to be in a serious condition, and jo New Dealers, Democrats, Reaccording to one report a Chinese pyhjicans, management or labor in | was killed in one bomb explosion. ! > : 5 i . : jour outlook,” Brig. Gen. Lewis B. | The police, after a brief chase to- | Hershey, Selective Service Director, |day. arrested four suspects, Whose (,)3 delegates to the 23d State | identities were not revealed. Gov-| American Legion Convention here | ernment authorities professed ig- today |norance of the motives behind the| “Gop Hershey spoke at the closing DoE oe Dublin Te- session of the convention as the Po Ne LEITOTISM Was | gelegates prepared to elect new offi-

(aimed at Spanish residents here, cere” with W. Carl Graham of Ft.

land it was noted that at least] ; ring 5 {three of the stores that | Wayne appes I . -

were | : % i {candidate for State Commander. bom 2 owned by Spaniards.| The convention adopted three orning Press unanimously special defense resolutions calling urged the government to INSULULE | on the President. administrative an immediate and thorough inves-!sfficials, industry and labor to distigation of “this grim throwback regard their “peity jealousies”; reto Machado terrorism, referring to affirming the national Legion stand the wave of bombings during the favoring all-out aid to Britain. and | Years of revolution against the dic- |pledging the Legion's efforts to tatorship of the late President Ger- combat un-American and subversive ardo Machado. | activities. ?

By WILLIAM CRABB

|grad—now probably 65 miles away increases |—were made only after a step-bv- budget for next year. | One member of the group, who Prove whether ‘asked that he

salary raises. | appearing before Council this week he didn't to defend their budget requests,| Mayor Sullivan, likewise, declined! The plan apparently would raise |

| McKendree replied. | of a saloon door and walked right

COUNTY TO DROP

PAY INCREASES

Councilmen Reported Agreement on Plan To Cut Budget.

County Councilmen were reported | vacation and Lieut. Phillips was not to ON duty yesterday.

today to have agreed secretly eliminate all, or nearly all the salary asked in the

not be identified, said the Council had decided on

{this step in a determined effort to hold down local taxes as a cushion

for the defense-inspired Federal taxes.

A substantial portion of the nearly | Leroy J. Keach, Safety

$400000 boost in the

County

loyees to private industry.

51.56 cents—as compared year's 41-cent rate. This, together with

the various

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proposed | president, refused to order the Fire! budget for 1942 represents | Department to make the records! Department heads, available to newspapermen, saying !

previous triumphs announced when [Of their most valuable County em- Keach this afternoon.

The County budget, as it went t0 ton attending the annual conventhe corn crop. it came too late to Nazis claimed to have “destroyed” the County Council yesterday, calls tion of the International Associa(presumably | for a County tax rate next ag? of | tion of Fire Chiefs, was notified of to this [the

other local budget proposals. would |

send the total tax rate for Indianapolis in Center Township next vear to a fraction of a cent over $3.44. The County Council todav conducted a hearing on the Tuberculosis Hospital budget requests. Newspapermen were barred from the hearing. The Welfare Department budget is to be studied tomorrow. No definite changes in the bud-

gets will be revealed until the Coun-|

cil concludes its review, it was announced.

A Detour on the

Primrose Path

DETROIT. Aug. 18 (U. P).— Miilard McKendree, 44, testified

in his own defense today at his {and Mrs. Vestor Knoy, 1347 W. 34th |

trial on a drunkenness charge before Recorders’ Judge John V. Brennan. “Were you intoxicated?” Judge Brennafl asked. “I'm afraid I was, vour honor.” “I came out

into the first door I saw open.” “What kind of a door was it?” Judge Brennan questioned. “It was a patrol wagon,” McKendree said. “Charge dismissed.” was Judge Brennan's closing statement.

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{lodged in her lung, was on her way {by motor today to St. Luke's Hospi-

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(the operation free of charge if the igirl could be brought to Chicago.

Unity in National Viewpoint Is Needed In Defense Drive, Hershey Tells Legion

Fatal Blast in His Home Begins

Reports Conflict on Whether Firemen Were on Duty.

Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy was en rotue home from Boston by plane today as an investigation of an explosion which cost the life of one fireman working in the basement of the Chief's home and seriously burned another fireman got underway, Burned fatally was Fireman Alfred H. Stumm, 35, of 802 N. Graham Ave., who died in City Hospital last night, eight hours after the blast.

arms was Lieut. Arnold W. Phillips, 34, of 3018 Meredith Ave. of Engine House 26. Fire Department officials said the two firemen were in the basement of the Chief's home, 1058 Congress |

Ave, removing paint from the walls | and floor of the social room pre- HINT WALLACE

paratory to redecorating the room. Fumes from the varnish remover they were using became ignited, apCongress Sources Predict Super Agency to Boss Defense Effort.

parently by the gas pilot light of the hot water heater. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (U. P). Asked when Mr. —Congressional sources said today vacation, Chief : : . “yesterday.” A hat President Roosevelt iz consid-

Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy

Reports in Conflict

Safety Board members are inwhether the two firemen were, on or off duty at the fime thev were working in the Chief's home. Roscoe McKinney, First Assistant

Fire Chief, said Mr. Stumm was on

Stumm went

McKinney

on said

County newspaperman’s request to see the ering a major revision of defense

Fire Department records that would | management that would put Vice the men were off | President Henry A. Wallace at the

duty was turned down by Chief | head of a new super agency. McKinney with the statement he| Informed legisiators heard that was not going to take the respon- the new agency, for which no name

be back this afternoon. Mayor Also Declines

{bine the functions of the Office of | Production Management and the Economic Defense Board. Both Board [these agencies would continue to operate as part of the setup, it was understood.

“believe it necessary.” ‘Assistant President’

“As-

| agency outranking the OPM, headad by William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman as co-directors. Mr. WalJace is now head of the Economic Defense Board, an agency created to exert economic pressure on the AXis powers. Meanwhile President Roosevelt [today scheduled a conference. with

Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister PIN IN LUNG CHILD {of Supply, and confirmed reports |

that a special study is being made to clear up conflicts between two of Fluoroscope Required Treat Loca! Girl.

Nine-year-old Jane Knoy, a pin

Chief Kennedy, who was in Bos-

tragedy and left Boston by plane at 7:30 this morning. He was (Continued on Page Four)

with Lord Beaverbrook and LendLiase Administrator Harry L. Hopto Kins | The White Hous? revealed that {Judge Samuel Rosenman of New {York had been commissioned to study priorities difficulties between the Office of Production Management and the office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply.

Meets Beaverbrook

| Lord Beaverbrook, following luncheon with the President, was to confer with the OPM board, con-

tal in Chicago, where surgeons will | use a $40,000 instrument to extract | the pin. | The girl left the City Hospital accompanied by her parents, Mr. | Hillman, and Secretaries of War and Navy Henry L. Stimson and Frank Knox.

St., and relatives who offered to drive the child to Chicago, the closest place where a bi-plane fluo- | pe : roscope capable of performing such Winds Tl a Sie Dux an operation is available. | and Russia > The child was holding the straight| 1, addition to Mr. Wallace. the pin in her mouth yesterday when | pow board reportedly would include she gulped suddenly, swallowing it. Secretary of State Cordell Hull At the City Hospital, X-rays showed zr Stimson, Col. Knox, Price Conthe pin was in her left lung. trol Administrator Leon Henderson City Hospital doctors contacted | ang one or two other officials St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, and | Some legislators thought the censurgeons there promised to perform | tering of defense activities under Mr. Wallace, both as to domestic | production and international econ- | omy, might be designed to meet persistent: Congressional criticism of Mr. Roosevelt for failure io appoint a single responsible head for the defense program.

FDR URGES SAFETY The hot fight between Robert | Lyons of Indianapolis and Isadore Levine of Laporte for the post of national committeeman reached a| WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (U.P. — fever pitch this morning, but it | President Roosevelt, warning that was expected that if one candidate | needless loss of life and property appears to have the edge before |is hampering defense, today called the balloting begins sometime to-|on the National Safety Council to day, the other will join in making |lead a nation-wide campaign the election unanimous. | against accidents on the highway, The convention session today *on the job or at home. adopted a serious note in com-| He observed that at the present parison with the hilarity and noise- | rate accidental deaths in the United making that has marked the visit | States this year will exceed 100,000. of the Legionnaires since they ar-| “To insure maximum efficiency we rived Saturday. The climax of the | must have maximum safety 24 hours festivities was a three-hour parade (a day—not only at work, but also yesterday afternoon witnessed by [on the highway, at home, everysome 35,000. | where,” the President said in a Gen Hershey said that the “Na- proclamation. tional Self Examination” brought about by the draft has indicated] CHURCH GROUP TO MEET the country is in danger of “grow-| The Women's Society of the ing soft.” “The nation is not lost by any| Methodist Church will hold their means, but there are definite dan- | monthly meeting tomorrow beginger signs,” he said. “It is not good ning with a 6:30 p. m. dinner. Mrs. that in some localities 30 to 40 per, Luther Albert, vice ident, will {Continued on Page Four) preside ?

at Postoffice, Tadianapolis, Ind.

sibility since Chief Kennedy would Das yet been selected, would com-|

the principal U. S. defense agencies. | Mr. Roosevelt arranged to lunch |iatory

sisting of co-directors Knudsen and |

AS AID TO DEFENSE

| Christian Service of the Riverside

Matter

OF DRAFTEES MAY BE CUT |

ARMY REVEALS MOST TO SERVE 14-18 MONTHS

200,000 To Be Released Before Dec. 10; Few Expected To Stay Full 215 Years; Married Men Get Priority. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—The War Departe ment announced today it plans to release selectees and National Guardsmen after they have served between 14 and 18 months unless the international situation becomes more serious. Under the military service extension bill signed yestere day by President Roosevelt, the Army could keep selectees,

Guardsmen and Reservists in service for a total of 30 months, or 2145 years. Regular Army men could be retained y

for a total of 415 years. | The Army also sent instructions to the field arranging for the release from active duty of almost 200,000 men by, Dec. 10 of this vear, in the following order of preference: 1. Dependency ‘and hardship cases when properly

‘established. | 2. Men 28 vears of age or over on July 1, 1941, regarde less of length of service and in order of length of active Fede eral service,

| 3. Married men who desire ‘discharge at the end of their 12 months’ service. 30 Months if Preferred

U, S.-JAP CRISIS | 1 | ¢ y ! Expressing the hope that it will not be necessary to hold in service

{any individual now in training for the full 30 months term permissable | under the law, the War Department Says Tokyo; Hull Calls |said it was anticipated that Nae

| tional Guard enlisted men and

| Answer Inadequate. |selectees, other than those for whom

America Must Send Ships,

By UNITED PRESS priorities are announced will be ree Japan announced today that it|Jeased “after an average of about will permit no Americans to leave ,g j,nihs total active service, some the country unless the United States | as early as 14 months.” | : i ti + 'sends a ship for them gp that| = gelectees and guardsmen eligible joven the Government will COR>; for release may extend their term sider each person's application In-l of active service to the full 30 | dividually. ’ tare of | MONtHS if they desire. | At the same time Secretary o | Enlisted men of the Regular State Cordell Hull said that the | x mv

! aL ik whose three-year term of United States still is walling a Sal=| ce .j0e js completed prior to Dee, isfactory explanation of Japan's

3 : Er 31, 1941, will be discharged unless Lailure to permit the departure of they desire to re-enlist and are Americans. wl t | He said that reports are not yet | Sine ie enlistment. gi | complete enough to erp feline | cordance with the priorities estabe action by the United States, but au- | ich eq must seek it on their ps thoritative sources expected retal- | application. i action to prohibit Japenese | from leaving this country without

special permission. : | Release from units will be mada | In the words of Kh Ishii, Tokyo | ;

| spokesman, there was a complete | a uniform rate so that the ef |stalemate in the negotiations for|ciency of the Army will not be toa evacuation of the Americans. seriously lowered. Except for dee | American Ambassador Joseph Clark pendency, hardship or other emere Grew made an unusual formal gency cases, men will not be restatement that he had been dis- | leased while their units are engaged | cussing the problem with the Jap-!in maneuvers or other special traine |anese “for a considerable period of | ing exercises. | time.” The War Department said it proe | poses to release from active service ciois by Dec. 10 some 150,000 National en Hu Fond SS Yo _ Guardsmen inducted last fall; 20,000 'nouncing that the Chiang Kai-shek |S€1ectees who pore Ldusieq 13st | Government of China has formally Reserve officers, y ’ | indorsed the : JSuTOIn, Rooser elé~ Last February the Department Churchill post-war program. | 4iected that approximately 50 per Congressional leaders who GiS-1....." ¢ the Reserve officers be ree cussed foreign problems with Pres- leased from active duty on the coms ident Roosevelt yesterday reported pletion of 12 monihs’ service. Dee that they gatherea that the ge tails have yet to be completed for istration believes there is a 50-30 |gmjia) relief for National Guard ghanee So d Japan oA Tove . officers. In general, the Department: dies if she feels it is safe, but that Sido J Nations] Guard x s 3 y will be on a show of force and aid 0 RUSSIA | {he same basis as for the Reserve /may cause her to draw back. | Corps.

CLAIM BRITISH TRY Local Boards Expect

‘Order ‘In a Few Days’

LANDING IN FRANCE Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock,

State Selective Service director, said | today he expected to receive within Tommies a day or two instructions under the

Say . | new War D tment pl to ree Were in 2 Motor Boats. | lease selectees upon which extended

service would bring “unusual harde BERLIN, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—Reports| ships.” . of an unsuccessful British attempt| Because he has not yet received to land a raiding-reconnaissance a “directive” on the matter, Col, party on the Occupied French Hitchcock said he could not estie Channel Coast one stormy night| mate the number of Indiana selecs recently have been distributed to|tees who may be affected by the German newspapers by the Propa-| ew policy. ganda Ministry. The British were in two large “motor storm boats,” and were only 60 yards from shore when German sentries in the coastal dunes saw their shadow on the sea, the dispatch said. The Germans fired a Verey light pistol, illuminating the scene, then fired on the British troops lying flat in the boats, it was said. The British halted and returned the fire with trench mortars, causing some casualties, but failing to effect a landing, the dispatch said. The Germans did not ascertain whether the British boats were damaged. Date of the raid was not given. 3

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